Posts by ian
208 posts • joined Tuesday 20th November 2007 02:35 GMT
Religion
Good people will do good, whilst bad people will do evil, but for good people to do evil, why that requires religion.
Burn in hell, the lot of 'em.
Meh.
I've red-green colour blindness, so this means nothing to me. In fact, 5% of the male population is red-green colour blind, and won't benefit from this amazing technical advance at all. In any case, my colour perception is a bit like my moggie's, although I have better resolution than she.
Posted in Welsh mum amazed by Marmite Messiah
Looks like Zappa to me
And as he said: "It's not getting any smarter out there. You have to come to terms with stupidity, and make it work for you." Obviously this woman is taking his advice.
All Benedict, all the time
So, would that be Papal Bull, then?
3D?
Shouldn't the specifications indicate resolution in all 3 dimensions (i.e. 1080 x 768 x 1024 fer instance)?
The ladies will all want one
I mean a werewolf fur coat. Here doggie, doggie!
Mine's the fur one.
Posted in Oz man fined for drink-drive rumpy-pumpy
Lovely!
Please bring us more from "down under". BTW, is this a pr0n site?
Damnit!
Where is my atomic car? THIS is obviously the answer to global warming.
Is it the boom box again?
I can easily see Apple making a kindle-killer that includes any number of apps that now require an iPhone. In fact, why not make it a mobile phone? I envision bling-hobbled chavs holding enormo boxes to their heads and nattering on, much like the giant boxes from the 1980s. They can't read, can they?
Bless me St. Jobs, for the marketing research I have rendered unto you..
Red Ken != Blond Boris?
By my calculations 25000 charging points is equivalent to 6250 ev's (at 4 charge point per vehicle). If only ev's are allowed in the city, that will clearly solve all of the problems! Bravo Boris!
Costs?
Does the iMiev require regular servicing like petrol burners? I suspect not, so there's a savings right there. Prorated over my lifetime, one of these will likely still be more expensive than typical iron. But then there's the satisfaction in telling the various ancient despot isms to sod off.
Posted in Hubble packing shiny new camera
At last!
I remember the first servicing mission and the difficulties they had simply opening & closing the doors. It seems they've got the hang of it now, just as they are about the abandon the thing.
"Earth's diverse pool of jerks and assholes"
Time to add some chlorine to the pool, surely.
"Suit"-able for purpose
I can envision marketing suits of this rubber to the B&D crowd. With strategically placed lighting, they should be quite fetching.
Mines the black rubber one.
Posted in Video iPhone coming in June?
meh.
This is just another disturbing/disgusting rumour. Nothing I've read about iPhone 3.0 makes it desirable to me. Just the opposite: these predicted applications are nothing but bloatware.
There it is again!
"VMS Eve". Is the next one to be "VMS Mary"? If so, is the "spaceship" to be named "Jaysus"?
And will I burn in hell for this thought?
Re: "Well done Lockheed", et. al.
This one is supersonic. Kestrel/Harrier were never supersonic. Not that it made any difference in the Falklands against the argies' super-entendards: not one Harrier was lost in combat. A good craftsman never blames his tools.
I know nothing about Sweden...
... but I doubt that a person is allowed to be judge, jury, and executioner there.
However, is Sweden so small that it has only one radio station? That might explain Pirate Bay's existence!
So disappointing
If the black helicopters come for me, I want them to be full-sized! Theres no respect in having a toy black helicopter come for you, with its whiny mosquito-like drone.
So does this one carry a tiny chin-mounted cannon?
Breaking Moore's law?
I was under the impression (mistaken it seems) that the problem with Moore's law had to do with quantum effects. Something about qbits not being the same as bits. No need for self-repair if transistors can be both damaged/undamaged simultaneously...
Lucas, Prince of Darkness
Let me be the first to welcome our inoperable automotive overloads ^H^H^H^H^H lords.
Posted in Failed Nork rocket bits straddle Japan
Norks at war?
IIRC, the Norks are still at war (the Korean War is only on hold). The truce is in force for now, but can easily be abrogated by either side (the Norks or the UNO). That being the case, the Typodung-2 is a potential casus belli.
So...
With all of the chaos caused by the boring machine, are the E. London video surveillance cameras still in operation? If so, why?
Are the black helicopters grounded for the duration?
A new meaning for 'outsourcing'
So I can indulge my fear of maths then, as we engineers will be made redundant by massive soylent-powered mechanical brains.
Rewards in paradise
Must be a bit of a deterrent to the suicide bomber knowing that to destroy an Israeli robot will only get him 70 inflateable virgin vinyl sex dolls in paradise.
Isn't that impossible?
Doesn't the theory of relativity explicitly rule out travelling faster than the wind? Eh? Oh, sorry.
Well, then! Perhaps if we went sideways to the light we could exceed "c".
@Outrageous
Looking for peurile (even sophmoric) comments are you? So as not to dissapoint, here you are:
Are they naming this rocket the "Big Type o'Dong"? Or Kim Il Jong's Ding Dong?
Either way it appears to be prohibited by the UNO, and may well become a test target for the US and Japan.
Enough of the willy-wagging.
Typically bleedin' obvious...
I can see El Reg's write-up now: "Sir Isaac Newton sees apple fall and writes bloody great book about it." under the Department of the Obvious heading.
Or, "Galileo watches pendulum swing, gets paid for it."
Mines the obvious one.
Saginaw: "This sucks"
I see the IT angle here. It is "hard"-ware isn't it?
Posted in Hyundai readies Volt-style hybrid
Is it powered by krill?
A Japanese whaler is likely to harpoon it by accident, unless the whaler is named Honda or Toyota. Especially given the crap drive system...
Re "Only useful as paperweigths"
My wife is a biofeedback therapist, and what you've described is using biofeedback to learn to control what most people (including polygraphers) believe to be completely automatic responses. Imagine the fun you could have by presenting them with various combinations of responses:
Question 1- Heart rate up, perspiration down, breaths down (100)
Question 2- Heart rate down, perspiration up, breaths down (010)
... etc.
Might as well bring back trial by combat.
Posted in Philips 42in Ambilight LED array TV
Still struggling with LCD
I bought a Kuro (the cheap kind), and have all of the advantages of plasma in addition to a space heater!
I wanted to like the LCD technology, but artifacts and poor black rendition turned me away.
".. staff subjected to .. robust questioning."
Were they sent to Guantanamo for a bit of water-boarding or stress positioning?
Playmobil reenactment, or it never happened!
Portable
Portable. The concept is relative, as anyone who carried a "portable PC" in the 1980's knows. In any case, 1.5 tonnes is far better than the 20-tonne COIL chemo-beamer. If there is a linear relationship between weight and power, an electrical 1MW laser should weigh about 15 tonnes. That should adequate to toast friendly forces in short order.
Multicore? iPhone?
I anxiously await my massively parallel iPhone 1024G.
GOOOAAAALLL!
My goals in life are to:
1. Live to be an embarrasment to my children
2. Become a burden on society
3. And to do the above for as long as possible.
I hoist a 20-kilo beer stein, thus getting both my alcohol and my exercise in one go!
@Paul Rhodes 12:33 GMT
" Anyone think the US would shut down power stations and leave themselves at a disadvantage.."
Why yes, yes I do think they would. In fact they did. It was done by Enron, and lead to rolling blackouts and hugely expensive 'leccy. And (surprise!) it was done during a conservative, pro-business, anti-regulation government.
Piratical free enterprise forever! Arrr!
@Seán
If China "freed" Tibet, then we've "freed" Iraq. Odd how the Tibetans and the Iraqis are such ungreatful gits.
And here come the gunships to liberate you!
Not economically feasable?
There's no need for a 10MW mains supply for a "charging station". If you look around the back, you'll see a very large battery constantly on trickle-charge supplying 'leccy for the customers out front. This evens out the load seen by the mains, and averages it down.
While it is a brilliant idea, I'll be modest about it.
Nuclear winter?
Let's have a lovely nuclear war! That'll solve the problem.
It's a bit of "The House That Jack Built", innit.
Posted in Vatican vetos 'dot god' domain
Keep religion out of IT?
That's a stunner. I thought the pope believed god was omni-present, omni-etc. Where is the .jewish, .atheist, .agnostic, .pagan, .wikkan, .heresy, and .infidel TLD? I hate to think ICANN are engaging in religious descrimination.
On a related topic, where is the .aggro TLD?
"the Moon’s almost infinite number of impact craters"
Surely one can be found of the right size and shape, requiring only minimal retooling.
Mine's the one with the "Working smarter, not harder" award in the pocket.
Posted in UK kiddies cop a righteous tasering
C'mere lad and meet Mr. Tazer!
We're too civilized to condone caning, no putting in a bit of stick here, nooo! Its not technologically advanced innit.
Posted in The Equalizer prowls Albert Square
@FOTW for Sarah surely...
You should know that Mistress Sarah is known for her firm grip of the whip, and her textual floggings are unequaled.
You're for the lash now Ben!
"French cooperation"
Is an oxymoron.
Better uses for complex hydrocarbons
Interesting idea, that. However since we've got ice ages sorted for the next 55Ky, I think petroleum has more useful applications than as fuel. Those complex hydrocarbons are too valuable to burn, as we will discover when they run short. More expensive paint, medicine, plastics, fertilizer, etc.
Posted in Tesla names Model S rollout date
Disperse?
"Tesla also announced that the US Department of Energy has told it that it expects to begin dispersing in “four to five months” the funds.."
If they used the word "dispersing", then I'll dismiss it as they are no better than they should be. However, if El Reg used "dispersing" instead of "disbursing", consider yourselves roundly censured.
Mine's the one with the dictionary in the pocket.
The God of the Gaps
AC - "the questions that evolution can't answer can still be atributed to a god."
I'm not religious, but its clear to me that any religious person that attempts to reconcile science with religion by recourse to the "God of the Gaps" idea is dooming their religion in several ways:
1. If religion wasn't obscurantist before, then confining God to the obscure will certainly make it so. Remember, there is no security in obscurity, which leads to the next trap for religion in the God of the gaps idea.
2. As the gaps narrow, the God of the gaps diminishes. So much for your omni-everything God!
As a warning the religious: "MIND THE GAP!"
Cow oil?
What exactly is the flash point of a pig? Can I run my car on bangers?
